An office coexisting with a 100-year-old giant mango tree.

This project is to keep the mango tree in the center of the site and build a new office building around it. In this office, where coexistence with the mango tree was desired, it was necessary to simultaneously consider the rationality of both people and nature.

One is how people who use the office can spend comfortably while benefiting from the shade and scenery. The other is whether the tree itself will be as healthy as before after the building is built. While changing the subject to a person or a tree, we examined how a comfortable environment should be for both.

We repeatedly examined how to ensure that the amount of solar radiation required for the growth of trees would not fall short, and decided on the eaves and the shape of the slab. Following the unevenness of light and shadow created between trees and buildings, we examined the place where people should be three-dimensionally. By maintaining a comfortable environment for trees, we thought of a sustainable symbiotic relationship with nature that can continue to be received for trees.

The spiral staircase surrounding the 100-year-old mango tree gives people the joy of living while also channeling rainwater collected on the roof to the mango tree through gutters. This organic architecture, which stands in a balance between people and nature, can be said to be a prototype of environmental architecture in the hot and humid Southeast Asia.

與百年芒果樹共生的辦公室

本計畫的核心是保留場地中央的百年芒果樹，並在其周圍興建新的辦公建築。在這個追求與芒果樹共生的辦公空間裡，人與自然的合理性必須同時被考量。其一，是如何讓使用辦公室的人能在樹蔭與景致的庇佑下舒適地生活；其二，則是如何確保建築完成後，芒果樹依舊能保持原本的健康狀態。

我們不斷在「人」與「樹」之間切換視角，思考何謂對雙方都舒適的環境。為了確保芒果樹生長所需的日照不被削減，我們多次檢討屋簷與樓板的形式。依循樹木與建築間光影的起伏，我們立體地思考人應該佔據的位置。藉由維持樹木所需的良好環境，我們嘗試建構一種能持續延續的自然共生關係。

環繞百年芒果樹的螺旋樓梯，不僅讓人們在日常中感受生活的喜悅，同時也透過屋頂導水槽，將雨水引流滋養芒果樹。這座在「人」與「自然」間取得平衡的有機建築，可以說是東南亞炎熱潮濕氣候下，環境建築的雛型。